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delalluvia:
My boss is anal retentive. I like that about her though, but what she's demonstrating as of late is being anal retentive and questioning when she doesn't have sufficient information and I'm the only one she does this to because of my lunch schedule.
I'm supposed to leave to eat lunch at 1 pm. I don't always leave exactly at 1 pm. Sometimes I forget and leave a few minutes later or today, there was an emergency and my counterpart was running around the office trying to find people and I voluntarily stayed at my desk to cover the phones until she got back, which was about 1:20 pm.
My boss came back from lunch at 1:30 pm and at 2 pm asked my counterpart why I wasn't back from lunch.
My office counterpart had to explain to her that I had left my desk for lunch later than normal. But when my office companion told me this later, she made sure I knew my boss was starting to ask regularly about my timeliness.
>:(
Obviously, my impromptu changes in the regularity of things upsets my boss. So here I was thinking I was doing an 'above and beyond the call' of my job, taking my lunch when the office coverage allowed for it, instead, it's reflecting badly on me because my boss thinks I'm taking long lunches.
It makes me frustrated because my office counterpart is usually at her desk before I get there in the morning. My boss comes in an hour before either of us, so she's obviously impressed that my co-worker is always at her desk early.
But what my boss doesn't know - and doesn't bother to ask - is what time this girl goes home.
My boss leaves before either of us. We're supposed to be there until 5 pm. What my boss doesn't know is that for every minute this girl comes in early, she leaves that much earlier. She's not supposed to.
She one time left 1/2 hour early and I didn't say anything to anyone about it.
But that's never anything I bring up or can bring up and my boss doesn't think to ask because that situation is not as transparent to her as my alleged 'long' lunches. She thinks this girl is like her and just works the extra time in the morning and doesn't count it toward her work time because she's not supposed to.
She's wrong.
So now, I'm going to have to be extra perfect on my timeliness, so she can quit asking about it while my counterpart can sashay out of the office at the end of the day whenever she wants to and my boss will never think to ask.
>:( >:( >:(
Kelda:
Perhaps you could bring it up in the next one to one / appraisal?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Kelda on April 07, 2011, 05:14:16 pm ---Perhaps you could bring it up in the next one to one / appraisal?
--- End quote ---
If my boss brings it up, I certainly will. If she doesn't, I really can't.
Minor bitch of the day: Went to the Renaissance Faire today. Alas, why is it that when you try to really take care of something it ends up being lost? I bought a lovely gold and moonstone pair of earrings. $35. They were lovely and delicate. I had a plastic bag with my sandals in them in which I was throwing everything, but I thought they'd be safer in my pouch where I had my important stuff - phone, credit cards, money. I should have just thrown them in the sack. Apparently, sometime in the afternoon, while I was digging out cash or ID or something, they fell out.
Now someone has a nice $35 pair of earrings that I bought. >:(
delalluvia:
Another minor bitch.
I had a wake to go to yesterday. Took a long time deciding what to wear, all the normal toilet stuff women do to prepare for a big event, ex-boyfriends/admirers were going to be there I hadn't seen in years...and the shower head in the shower stall breaks. No shower head. Just a thin line of water puttering out of the pipe. With this I had to wash my hair, bathe and shave and brush my teeth in the shower to get ready for a big event.
*sigh*
So, today, I ran errands in the 100 degree heat and ran by the hardware store to get a new showerhead.
I've never owned a house before, so I don't think of these things. I just grabbed a simple one that screws on and was reasonably priced and thought that was that.
I come home and - yay! - the thing screws on easily and then I tilt it to bend it down over the shower stall floor and it only moves 1/2 inch before it goes thunk!
The shower head is not meant for a very narrow shower stall.
It's meant for a bathtub.
I didn't know they had types of showerheads.
If I kept the stupid thing, it would be throwing water horizontally at head level against the opposite wall of the shower stall.
*sigh*
Can't something be fucking easy just once?!?!? >:( >:( >:(
If it wasn't already 9 pm, when I haven't eaten dinner, I'd wrap the thing back up and take it back to the store and exchange it, but I just want to eat and cool off and wind down.
So another day of bathing in a tiny stream of water... >:(
delalluvia:
Holiday dress bitch.
Spiegel's really sucks.
I got their "Holiday dress" catalog. Found a gorgeous lace dress. I thought, well, it might not flatter me, but if I order it now, and try it on and it doesn't fit, I can still return it in time and get another dress.
So I call them up, because strangely, these holiday frocks are not on their website.
Am on hold for about 8 minutes and finally get to talk to a rep:
Yes, the catalog is out, but the items are not available yet.
They're taking orders, but they won't ship until Nov 28.
The dress may or may not come any earlier.
No, once you pre-order, you cannot cancel the order if the dress won't arrive in time for your party. You have to get it, then pay for shipping it back for a refund.
When's my party? Dec 3.
I hung up after telling the rep that was ridiculous business and no, I could easily get a dress somewhere else a lot sooner.
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